Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Do Earths with slower economic growth have a better chance at FAI? - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 June 2013 07:54PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 June 2013 12:26:20AM 3 points [-]

Also: Many likely reasons for something to happen about this center around, in appropriate generality, the rationalist!EA movement. This movement is growing at a higher exponent than current economic growth.

Comment author: owencb 03 August 2013 10:40:02AM *  1 point [-]

I think this is the strongest single argument that economic growth might currently be bad. However even then what matters is the elasticity of movement growth rates with economic growth rates. I don't know how we can measure this; I expect it's positive and less than one, but I'm rather more confident about that lower bound than the upper bound.